Legal Opinion
State v. Weidul
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 13, 1993PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUDMAN, Justice.
Ernest Brian Weidul appeals from a Superior Court (York County, Cole, J.) judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of criminally threatening his father with a dangerous weapon, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 209 (1983). For the first time, on appeal, Weidul argues that the trial court fatally departed from the instructions that a trial court is authorized to give to a jury after it has commenced to deliberate. We are once again faced with the task of evaluating the effect of a departure from the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice § 15-4.4 (1980). Because we conclude that the trial…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Jenkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- United States v. John FlanneryCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1971
- State v. WhiteSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
- State v. MahaneySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
- State v. HealdSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
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3Cited by11 opinions
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